Cooke, Josiah Parsons, 1827-1894 · Boston, Little, Brown and Company · leaf 680
produced, and stowed away insuitable ice-houses until night, when the ice is conveyed in boatsto Calcutta. Winter is the ice-making season, viz. from the endof November to the middle of February. * (320.) Conduction. — That dense and compact solids like themetals are good conductors of heat, while… … illustrated by means of the apparatusof Ingenhousz, represented in Fig. 451.The different rods attached to the frontof the brass box, made of various ma-terials, are covered with a thin layer ofwax ; and on turning boiling water intothe box, the wax melts on the rods, aftera certain time, to…
Matter · Heat
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